Description:
Recto: 16 lines of text in Latin written in a gothic rotunda hand on vellum. Ruled in red and rubrics, unusually, in magenta. One two-line illuminated initial 'D' in liquid gold on a blue ground. One line filler in blue and gold and two pilcrows in liquid gold on red grounds. Capitals touched in yellow.Verso: As Recto, with one illuminated pilcrow.
Origin: France.
Date: c.1500.
Content: The leaf is from the Suffrages of the Saints section of a Book of Hours. The rubrics on the eighth line indicate an antiphon to Saint Anne:
Celeste beneficium introivit in annam per quam nobis nata est maria virgo.
(A heavenly privilege entered into Ann, through whom the Virgin Mary was born to us.)
Then follows the versicle Ora pro nobis beata anna (Pray for us blessed Anne).
The two-line initial 'D' begins the prayer:
Deus qui beatae Annae tantam gratiam donare dignatus es: ut beatissimam matrem tuam in suo gloriosissimo utero portare meruit: Da nobis per intercessionem matris et filiae tuae propitiationis… Read More